The Labour Government

[TinFoilHat]

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Politicians don't you just love them, this 22bn black hole seems to be like a Labour anti nom dom pledge. Before the election non doms were gonna pay for fucking everything and after the election the black hole is stopping them doing fucking everything.

She's as bad the Tories. A careerist politician more concerned with looking after herself than her constituency.

 

[mancityvstoke]

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Politicians don't you just love them, this 22bn black hole seems to be like a Labour anti nom dom pledge. Before the election non doms were gonna pay for fucking everything and after the election the black hole is stopping them doing fucking everything.

Self serving liars every one of them

 

[hilts]

Self serving liars every one of them

I could post some of Starmers justice for waspi women comments but one has to be careful with the gravitational pull of a black hole, or a purples arsehole as its now scientifically called.

I think they should have claimed it was 100bn or more because one day a decent journalist will number crunch the cost of broken promises and it will be a fuck lot higher than the mysterious 22bn.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

You seem to have missed the children of "ordinary people" who currently pay £5,500 a term to give their children the connections required to get rich in monetary terms.

It's more than that tbh. I had a check of the fees of of all three private schools in my town and the one in the neighbouring town.

All at least 20k for day pupils. 15k is the old rates from people whose kids have reached university and graduated.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

I get her point but not the best look

Some of the unrepeatable comments underneath the post, :) I’m trying to understand why women need compensation for the change in state pension age to bring retirement age equal with men.
I don’t recall labour promising to pay compensation during the election campaign in fact they didn’t promise much at all

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

The poster doesn't assume they are all corrupt but mismanagement of funds in that area does happen a lot. If they're giving 11 billion of my money to it, as a taxpayer I contribute to that money, I want to see how it's used and what benefits it's having.
Our own government and the previous one are corrupt too.

Have you been visited by three spirits tonight?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

They have plenty of money, haven't they just sent 50 million to Syria? That's on top of 11 billion to Africa for some climate claptrap, which will go straight into upgrading the mansions of the dictators in that country, plus our regular top up to Ukraine. We elect these governments to serve the people of this country first and foremost but they seem to delight in making our own citizens suffer while throwing money hand over fist abroad. It's gaslighting of the highest order.

I get you, mate, but aren’t we here to also support other nations, especially when they are flooding to our country from war torn states?

Syria is new aid to support with food, medication and other forms of humanitarian aid to help their country rebuild. The funding for Africa was agreed during the previous COP and started in 2021, aiding those countries with climate resilience and helping them to regain on lost ground when it comes to farming and agriculture, helping not only them, but us as well with food production. If we’d have walked away from that, it would’ve made it much easier for the likes of Russia and China to make even more influence and also bring more chaos to those areas, probably leading to more migration.

I do agree, we need to look after our own better and we need huge reform with the broken social contract. However, we are the ones to have taken huge advantage of these countries and have a duty to give something back, if not only to help ourselves.

 

[Kompany Car]

Yep and it’s a balancing act, our international standing is still one of our best assets.

Lets not kid ourselves the UK's international standing seems to have gone years ago. The only reason why we are a world power is due to our nuclear capability.

With the exception of maybe Kenyans, people in most Africa countries blame the UK for many of their problems and see Russia and China as the panacea to the west. Russia obviously supporting their favoured dictator in countries undergoing civil war by using the Wagner group and their other mercenary affiliates.

With the advent of the internet in the more developed African nations, the negative aspects of the UK's (and France's) colonial past have been amplified, whilst the positive aspects have been diminished due to extortionate loans for infrastructure from the likes of China and Russia that they can never afford to repay. But to the locals the new road, train line, water supply was built by China or Russia for them, making them appear philanthropic when in reality its just another form of indebtedness.

 

[Hertzblue]

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Yep and it’s a balancing act, our international standing is still one of our best assets.

Was seriously pissed off when we shrunk the UK aid budget, knowing that none of that saved money would go to support our country.